parents who have 18mth old boys or older...

[hermykne]

whats the best value present/toy they have, that they return to time and time again.
my ds is a bit of a wrecker, so i dont want to buy stuff thats a bit fragile as he'll definitely break it!
would he just like big digger/tractor/fireengine 's?
or one of thoose talking books by leappad?
he does like books and stories.

frannykenstein - our shoelace is a vacuum cleaner, and he simply can't play his battery powered keyboard without using his shoelace to plug into his amplifier.

My ds is 2yrs and 4 months and his favourite toys are duplo, lots of sets in a big basket (first started collecting when dd (nearly 11) was a year old, added to for ds1, so we do have quite a lot. Books about tractors (usbourne puzzle book, he knows the words off by heart), and small metal cars and tractors, and agree with suzy, anything I'm trying to do he can do better ,

Has got to be wooden train track and trains. Ds got his first set when he was 18months and still plays with it age 6

this is great - still being added too
going to print it off now for fine details
Thanks

Megablocks. ?Megablox? The huge size lego-type stuff. Once in a while my kids rediscover it & spend a morning building.... can keep all 3 entertained (ages 16m-almost 6y).